netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: mlx5: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <20190311.133838.74958847820887089.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, saeedm@...lanox.com, leon@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mlx5: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 01:33:43 -0500

> In case skb_header_pointer fails, the fix issues a warning.
> 
> A better fix requires modifying the signature of mlx5e_get_fcs to
> pass an error code upstream.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>

Saeed, I'll let you take this.

Thanks.